Tonight I learned that everything is connected to everything else via Paul Buckmaster. He played in the Third Ear Band, and on Joy of a Toy, Odessa, Mott, and Big Fun. And he produced or arranged "Space Oddity," On the Corner, "Moonlight Mile," Songs of Love and Hate, several Elton John records, several Carly Simon records, several Harry Nilsson records, This Time, Some Hearts, and several tracks from Chinese Democracy.
Please help keep me from buying everything the man's ever touched by suggesting some lesser-known greatness he's been involved in so I at least know where to start. Thanks.
― dad a, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 05:22 (seventeen years ago)
Good idea for a thread. Sorry I have nothing to contribute.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 18:42 (seventeen years ago)
He's on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, "Spiral Architect" to be exact.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)
I report back with more information from the internet.
He's the guy who got Miles into Stockhausen.
Soundtracks: The Spy Who Loved Me. He adapted an Astor Piazolla suite for 12 Monkeys. He plays improv on Polanski's Macbeth (with Simon House from Hawkwind). The 33 1/3 book on Bowie's "Low" says he and Bowie, under the influence of Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity, worked on a never released soundtrack to The Man Who Fell To Earth.
He also played on Mick Farren's "Mona" and a ton of Shawn Phillips and Faith Hill and Kenny Loggins and Celine Dion and ...
This On the Corner-period record looks off the hook: http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/2008/01/chitinous-ensemble-directed-by-paul.html
Nice interview with Gus Dudgeon (Elton John producer) talks about Buckmaster a bit: http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_gus_dudgeon/
In this 1971 Elton John interview calls Buckmaster "a real Penderecki freak" and that's why the opening cello riff from "Sixty Years On" is taken from Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. http://www.rickmcgrath.com/eltonjohn.html
― dad a, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 19:36 (seventeen years ago)
Some 1970 Elton/Buckmaster footage: Elton John - The Greatest Discovery Buckmaster on cello solo Elton John - I need you to turn to Buckmaster conducting Sixty Years On Compare: Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnos für die Opfer von Hiroshima (Was Elton just taking the piss out of the interviewer?)
― dad a, Thursday, 19 June 2008 04:28 (seventeen years ago)
Speaking of Penderecki, there's The Chitinous Ensemble - Chitinous: Buckmaster project of around the same time as On The Corner. Miles-ish, with added modernist strings on top.
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 June 2008 11:37 (seventeen years ago)